Re: leivla

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:59:28AM -0600, Norma Jane Bumgarner wrote:
> I am a writer hired by a family of German Hungarians to write
> their history, and a Google search for a word used by one of the
> older relatives led me to:
> 
> http://www.lojban.org/jbovlaste/dict/leivla

Heh.  That's the online Lojban dictionary, which is a constructed
language.  leivla means, loosely, 'part of speech'.

> The woman used the word "leivla" (plural "leivli") to refer to
> something like a camisole, and I am trying to confirm the spelling
> and identify the language from which the word comes, whether it is
> Hungarian, Romanian, or the Swabian dialect spoken by the Germans
> in Hungary.
> 
> Is this something you can help me with, or perhaps point me to a
> source for such information.

No, sorry.  I'm copying the main list in case anyone there knows,
but I doubt it.

-Robin

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